Tag: Pension

Former Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) managing director Arif Ali Khan Abbasi has demanded a raise in pension of the national airline’s retired employees from...

Federal Minister for Culture and Heritage Samina Khalid Ghurki has said the democratic governments always took steps for the welfare of the masses and...

The enquiry report against former Indus Water Commissioner (IWC) Syed Jamaat Ali Shah has been completed and forwarded to the government with the recommendation...

As Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is amending Voluntary Pension System (VPS) rules, SECP seeks feedback on amendments to facilitate growth of...

Executive committee of Association for the Welfare of Retired Persons (AWRP), in its meeting condemns the attitude of relevant authorities for non-payment of pension...

The government is set to increase pension of widows of Supreme Court and high court judges from 50 percent to 75 percent by amending...

Ministry of finance has released Rs2 billion to Pakistan Railway (PR) for the payment of salaries and pensions to its 85,000 regular and 150,000...

President Asif Ali Zardari has taken serious notice of the death of a Railways pensioner and the long queues of pensioners at the National...

The retired employees of Pakistan Railways (PR) protested against the non-payment of pension here on Tuesday. According to media reports, more than 1500 retired PR...

With the federal government’s announcement of 20 percent raise in the pension of its retired employees, the Sindh government is likely to follow suit...

LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday filed a reference against former Assistant Advocate General Punjab Seema Munawar in an accountability court on the charge of receiving more than Rs. 3.859 million as family pension on fake documents.
The father of the accused, justice (R) Munawar Elahi Rana died on November 5, 1982, while her mother died on November 1, 1998 After the death of her mother, the accused applied for family pension showing herself to be single and

PARIS: Hundreds of thousands of defiant French strikers took to the streets on Thursday in a last-ditch bid to force President Nicolas Sarkozy to scrap a just-passed law raising the retirement age.
At least 270 rallies were planned around France, as workers and students launched the ninth in a series of one-day mass protests and strikes, part of a movement that has threatened to paralyse the economy. Most of the demonstrations of recent weeks have been peaceful, but gangs of

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President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes to put his titanic battle to raise France's retirement age behind him this week by signing the measure into law despite a new wave of strikes, rallies and fuel blockades.
With thousands of families heading off for school half-term holidays, and lawmakers expected to give the pensions bill their formal final approval on Wednesday, Sarkozy hopes the mass protest movement will die away.
But, with opinion polls showing the embattled

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The French government struggled to restore fuel supplies on Saturday, but unions dug in their heels at strike-hit oil refineries after the Senate approved the pension reform bill at the heart of the dispute.
Despite weeks of protests and strikes that have hit railways and refineries hardest, the flagship reform of President Nicolas Sarkozy's term is expected to be finally adopted by Wednesday. On the first day of a 12-day mid-term school holiday, Transport Minister

PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy sent in police on Wednesday to clear blockades at France's fuel depots that have caused petrol shortages as unions kept up resistance to an unpopular pension reform due for a final vote this week.
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said three major depots were unblocked overnight and Sarkozy said it would not let the country be paralysed by protests against a bill that seeks to raise the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60.
"If this disorder